SPAM

..not talking about that Minnesota canned Hormel SPAM but…

Blog, wiki, and guestbook

Blog spam, or “blam” for short, is spamming on weblogs. In 2003, this type of spam took advantage of the open nature of comments in the blogging software Movable Type by repeatedly placing comments to various blog posts that provided nothing more than a link to the spammer’s commercial web site.[6] Similar attacks are often performed against wikis and guestbooks, both of which accept user contributions.

Laziness, Christmas busyness = no blogging. When I logged in today I found 10 (!!) spam mail waiting for me! I think it’d be way more fun to approve real comments! Ha ha…

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